New to the game and I’m still struggling to understand what items and materials I should keep with me all the time to be able to face any situation and build almost all I need for exploring. I have 50+ hours to the game and my main items in inventory right now are Oxygen, Sodium, Carbon, Chromatic Metal, Life-Support Gel and then Batteries and Tritium in the Ship.

I’ve seen videos and some articles that have complained about NMS being an “overglorified base building game” or “next gen minecraft” but I can’t even believe that people would take that opinion given the amount of content in the game!!

I’m 20ish hours in, have a pretty shitty square base that just holds my base computer save point and storage units, and the story of the game + exploring planets and documenting fauna alone has been MORE than worth the 60 dollars I’ve payed for this game.

Not only that, I’m not even close to getting to the center of the galaxy, hell I haven’t even found Artemis yet (if that actually happens?) and I already feel as if I’ve gotten my money’s worth just from the story and exploration alone.

All this being said, 20 hours of story and insane exploration to not even be halfway through the game, not even having a new ship yet, and I’m blown away that I’d seen people label it as a base building game. Totally ridiculous!!!

NMS rules.

I’ve played 7 hours in one sitting, safe to say that I am really digging the game.

I played as far as going to a new solar system but for whatever reason the game started giving me a new set of objectives, so I built up a base, blew up some pirates, got some upgrades and whatnot. I figured that was the gameplay loop and that was what I was in for for the rest of the game.

Then I go and find Artemis’ coordinates and board the Space Anomaly and suddenly… There are other players now? It’s a hub? They all have incredible looking avatars and ships? One guy even gifted me some cool items just because I ran past him.

I’m suddenly hit with this feeling that this game is even more absolutely gigantic than I had thought it was and while I’m very excited about that, it’s a bit overwhelming. Is the universe consistent for all players and how they interact with it, kinda like an MMO but not? How does it work exactly? Can other players see my bases, even if they’re not in my game? Can I see theirs? Is multiplayer the best way to enjoy the game? Can people see what I name planets, or whatever?

Also, any basic advice for a total noob with absolutely no idea what the game has to offer? I’ve realised I don’t know anything about this game. Any spoiler-free advice/explanations/information for someone just starting out would be really appreciated.

Thanks so much guys 😁 So excited to play more of this game